Bark Catalpa, of New Bedford – Historic Reproduction
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Bark Catalpa, of New Bedford, preserved in this historic print. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Bark Catalpa, of New Bedford
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The bark Catalpa was a whaling vessel out of New Bedford, Massachusetts, a port that sent many such ships to sea in the nineteenth century. The ship became famous in 1876, when it sailed to Western Australia and freed six Irish nationalists held as prisoners at Fremantle, a rescue organized by Irish republican exiles in the United States. The record links the print to a shelflist card naming William H. Forbes & Company, but its maker and exact date are unverified, so it is best read as a view of a working ship from the height of New Bedford's whaling trade.
| Created / published | c1876. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print. |
| Notes | G10112 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Forbes (William H.) & Company. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,056 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-112062 |
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